We are excited to announce our CMNS Celebrates: Student Showcase & Alumni Mixer event!
Join us on April 8th from 6-8:00pm at the Gibson Art Museum at the SFU Burnaby Campus to see the work of our current students while reconnecting with our alumni and faculty.
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Join the @digitaldemocracies.bsky.social to celebrate the book launch of Dr. Alberto Lusoli’s “Make, Fail, Repeat: Creative Labor in the Start-Up Age”! This Friday at 6:00pm at the Alibi Room in Gastown.
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School of Communication alumnus Nira Arora delivered her first guest lecture as an Adjunct Professor earlier this month! She spoke on “The Art of Storytelling and Personal Platform Power” in CMNS 120W.
How did JFK define political courage—and what can his presidency teach us about democratic leadership today?
Mar 5 | 6–8 PM PST | SFU Vancouver
Limited seating - Register now!
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Join us and the @digitaldemocracies.bsky.social for an in-person talk by Dr. Bonnie Honig: "Architecture’s Last Laugh: Hannah Arendt’s *Eichmann in Jerusalem* from a Televisual Point of View".
Wednesday, February 25th at 12 PM!
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Happening tonight!
Join us in ONE WEEK for a visiting lecture by Robert W. Gehl: "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: How Activists, Technologists, and Ordinary People Built an Alternative to X”.
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This @thetyee.ca piece by former @sfucmns.bsky.social prof Donald Gutstein is essential reading on Big Tech's efforts to frustrate the development of an independent cloud in Canada. Read and share: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Join SFU CERi in TWO WEEKS for the launch of Critical Futures: Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Crisis and Social Transformation, edited by School of Communication professor @spoyntz.bsky.social, Am Johal and Kari Grain.
Register now: www.sfu.ca/ceri/events/...
⏰ Spring Deadline: March 2, 2026
DM us/email ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the application forms, submission, or any questions you have.
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Call for Chapters for the Handbook of Independent Journalism. Contains deadlines, word limits, potential areas of submission and link to submission form.
📯 Working on and around "Independent Journalism"?
Please consider submitting to our Handbook on Independent Journalism!📯
Abstract: 250-300 words (by March 15th) submit via this form: lnkd.in/gtBVmhcp
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Thank you for all who joined us at our 2025 Communication Research for Social Change project showcase earlier this month!
Interested in finding out more about this program? You can learn more here: www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
Congratulations to CMNS alumna Nira Arora, who has been named an Adjunct Professor in our School!
Since graduating from our School in 1999, Arora has gone on to become an Executive Producer at Bell Media and Morning Show host of Holly and Nira at Virgin Radio.
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The School's second cohort of Communication Research for Social Change MA students will be presenting their projects on Friday, December 5th from 1:00-5:00pm at SFU Harbour Centre (Room 1600).
Learn more this year's presenters and projects: www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
Earlier this month, we celebrated our new graduate students and recent authors at our inaugural Author Celebration and Welcome Reception. Thank you to all who came out!
See the full photo gallery here: www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
Interested in completing a MA or PhD degree? Hear from Graduate Program Chair Zoe Druick and Graduate Program Coordinator Jason Congdon about why our graduate program could be the right fit from you!
The info session will be held online for your convenience.
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How is the printing press like AI? Stephanie Dick (@sfucmns.bsky.social) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social about the historical precedent for the hype and fear over modern AI advances.
"We've attributed a huge amount of cultural transformation to the printing press, but it turns out that historically, that story is just not true," Stephanie Dick (@sfucmns.bsky.social) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social. What can the past can teach us about AI? At 8pm | Producer: @carrletta.bsky.social
Last week, our CMNS Peer Mentor program hosted Investigating Information, a free media literacy event. Attendees learned practical strategies for fact-checking online and gained further insight into the topic from our panel including professors Stuart Poyntz, Stephanie Dick and Ahmed Al-Rawi.
The Digital Democracies Institute’s (DDI) Data Fluencies (DF) 2.0 Project is sponsoring a semester-long fellowship for Simon Fraser University faculty members. Fellows are expected to develop one new course related to their humanities-engaged research on AI.
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What better time than to recognize a new alumna than during convocation week? Alysha Bains graduated for the second time from the School of Communication recently, this time to receive her PhD.
Learn more about her research and her work as the School's Head TA: www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
Looking to take the next step in your career?
Applications for our graduate programs (MA and PhD) are now open! Apply now until January 15th, 2026.
More info for MA admissions: www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
More for PhD admissions: www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
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Join us in congratulating our graduates at the FCAT Convocation celebration on October 9th!
The Convocation ceremony will be held at Convocation Mall at Burnaby Campus at 9:45am, with a reception to follow at the SW corner of the Reflection Pond.
Register now: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/R5D37FG
On July 9 of this year, we had the privilege of hosting Dr. Claudette Lauzon (@claudettelauzon.bsky.social)
from @scasfu.bsky.social for a talk entitled 'Technics and Termites: Swarm Intelligence in Art and Visual Culture'.
To view their full lecture, click here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFY2...
Stay tuned for upcoming lectures and videos from the Fall Speaker Series at the DDI. To get on the invitee list for the Series, DM us your email ID and your institution!
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Meet the School of Communication Leadership Team joining School Director Milena Droumeva and School Manager Manjeet Gill in September 2025!
Learn more about what they see as the challenges and opportunities for our School and its programs: www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
📆 Event Alert: Join in for an electric conversation with Dr. Susan Erikson, an SFU Distinguished Professor, who studies highly complex political economies that shape human health.
Link - investable.eventbrite.ca
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Congratulations to PhD student Hoornaz Keshavarzian, who won IAMCR's 2025 Decolonising the Digital Award!
Applications are still being accepted for the Postdoctoral position until this Friday!
Photos from our Reimagining Data Project Showcase earlier this summer! In this course, students from different disciplines developed their own projects in a collaborative environment. Taught by CMNS professor Fred Lesage and SIAT professor Gillian Russell.
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